The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Two Colorado bills would defend property rights from activists’ threats
Anti-energy activists have a constitutional right to zealously oppose oil and gas production. They can do this, even as some drive to demonstrations in gas-guzzlers and heat their homes with natural gas they want kept in the ground.
Anti-energy protesters have the right to hold signs and yell at hardhat workers approaching drilling rigs for their shifts.
The First Amendment of the Constitution forbids government from abridging “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” We love this law. Without the First Amendment The Gazette’s editorial board would have been silenced long ago.
If anyone tries to stop anti-energy activists from peaceably gathering to demand the shutdown of energy production, we will come to their defense. We will demand law enforcement uphold the right to protest.
Flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases found | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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Updated 3 days ago
NEW MEXICO Screwworm spreads beyond Texas Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one found in a dog in New Mexico, outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest...
Michael Dougherty is literally running for attorney general in Colorado Democrat’s 1st TV ad
Ernest Luning
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Updated 20 hours ago
Democratic attorney general candidate Michael Dougherty, the Boulder County district attorney, runs laps around the judicial complex in Denver that houses the office he’s seeking in a TV ad released Friday that includes a subtle dig at one of his...
Group aims to add right to hunt and fish to Colorado Constitution
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 17 hours ago
A group is seeking to make Colorado the 25th state in the nation with an established constitutional right to hunting and fishing through a proposed ballot initiative. Backed by the International Order of T. Roosevelt, a group dedicated to preserving...
Colorado Politics Calendar June 15-21
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 4 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
A primary brings out primal instincts | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
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Updated 3 days ago
There are no Stanley Cup finals or NBA title showdowns involving local teams this June. In their place, we are inundated with primary election campaign ads. Coloradans can be excused for missing the diversion and alternate programming. But life can...
Dem-GOP tension dominates 1,000-bill legislative session | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 days ago
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “I can honestly say that until now, we got along well with the governor’s office,” said House Minority Leader Federico Peña, D-Denver. “We visited frequently with the staff. And you didn’t see certain legislators speaking...
Hickenlooper lands endorsements from Elizabeth Warren, Ministerial Alliance in US Senate primary
Ernest Luning
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Updated 2 days ago
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper won endorsements this week from a progressive Democratic colleague and a coalition of metro-area African American faith leaders as voting began in Colorado’s primary election. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and the Greater Metro Denver...
Colorado justices say insurers may access policyholders’ medical info in denied-benefits litigation
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 days ago
The Colorado Supreme Court declined on Monday to expand its narrow prohibition on insurance companies accessing policyholders’ medical information, clarifying that a dispute over an insurer’s bad-faith decision to deny benefits is the only situation where a company is limited...
House District 14: Businesswoman, consultant square off in GOP primary
Mary Shinn
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Updated 2 days ago
Firearms training company owner Ava Flanell will face Troy Vanderhule, the chief fundraising officer for Dobson Philanthropic, in the June 30 Republican primary for state House District 14, an area in northern Colorado Springs. Flanell was appointed to the seat...
Federal judge wants Todd Blanche to swear in writing anti-weaponization fund won’t be revived
Jack Birle, Washington Examiner
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Updated 2 days ago
A federal judge maintained a block on the Department of Justice’s $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund Friday, despite the DOJ claiming they have abandoned the planned fund aimed at compensating allies of President Donald Trump and others who say they were politically targeted by...